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Post by Q-pee on Jul 26, 2022 13:35:55 GMT -5
thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/prize-years/2022 The Colony After Sappho Glory Small Things Like These Nightcrawling Maps of our Spectacular Bodies Case Study Treacle Walker The Trees Trust The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida Oh William! Booth I have read zero.... After Sappho sounds interesting, I'm curious about Treacle Walker, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, and The Trees. Glory sounds like a rerun of Animal Farm and will be avoided.
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Post by Liiisa on Jul 26, 2022 19:48:42 GMT -5
Gasp! Thank you.
Once again I haven't read any of these (or, honestly, even heard of most of them)... I'm behind
They all seem worth looking into, though Nightwalking just seems too painful to read right now. Treacle Walker strikes me as what I'd look for first, but maybe that's just about the chalk figure on the cover.
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Post by lillielangtry on Jul 27, 2022 1:10:56 GMT -5
I haven't read any but that doesn't surprise me. I'm pretty sure I heard an episode of Backlisted where one of the guys talked about Treacle Walker and it dud sound very interesting.
Small Things like These is less than 130 pages and I've heard good things about it. I do like a really good, short novel.
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Post by Liiisa on Jul 27, 2022 6:52:10 GMT -5
I tried to put Treacle Walker on my kindle last night to take with me this weekend, but it wasn’t in there yet.
I didn’t notice when I first saw the list that “Booth” was a Karen Joy Fowler — I’ve enjoyed something else by her, so I’ll look for that one early on too. And I know that NoViolet Bulawayo is supposed to be a good writer, though I haven’t gotten to their last one yet either
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Post by scrubb on Jul 27, 2022 19:16:16 GMT -5
Karen Joy Fowler wrote either the one about the world slowing down (physically), or the one with a title like "We are all Simply Beside Ourselves". I liked, but didn't love, both.
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Post by Liiisa on Jul 27, 2022 21:11:39 GMT -5
What was the name of that slowing down book? I know I read it (I think I liked it), but I tried to find it by scrolling through my book lists and never found anything that made me think of that book. I searched "Fowler" and all I could find was "Beside Ourselves." I will now go mad
Aha, hooray for Google: it's Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles. I read it in 2012, so I forgive myself for forgetting the title. So a three-word-name Karen, but not the same one.
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Post by Q-pee on Jul 28, 2022 2:31:01 GMT -5
Karen Joy Fowler wrote "The Jane Austen Book Club" which was OK... the movie was dire... so I don't know that I'll rush to her book (And I was surprised that Liiisa had read sthg by her, wouldn't have matched that up  ) |
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Post by Liiisa on Jul 28, 2022 4:54:59 GMT -5
I think I must have read a review of "Beside Ourselves" and decided to read it based on some aspect of the review. It was the one where the people had the chimpanzee, wasn't it?
I wouldn't have read "The Jane Austen Book Club" because... true confession... I am not all that into Jane Austen.
Hooray for having book lists that are dated and searchable, and for this place retaining threads from 7 years ago: I read "Beside Ourselves" after Zola's "Germinal" and although I didn't love the ending, I found it "absorbing" and good enough for a long train ride.
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Post by Q-pee on Jul 28, 2022 6:09:08 GMT -5
Well, it was nice knowing you.
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Post by lillielangtry on Jul 28, 2022 6:46:42 GMT -5
I... am also not such an Austen fan. I'm from Yorkshire, and am more of a Bronte person. Charlotte B said:
I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a common-place face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a bright, vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck. I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses."
But I do understand why others love her!
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Post by Q-pee on Jul 28, 2022 9:03:19 GMT -5
She's wickedly funny - but you do have to put some effort in to understand the characters.
I can't deal with the Bronte I have read - I want to slap the heroines. (Felt the same about Anna Karenina, BTW)
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Post by Liiisa on Jul 28, 2022 12:40:30 GMT -5
I think I’m just not in a Jane state of mind these days; I know she’s good, she’s just insufficiently apocalyptic for my current mood.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Jul 31, 2022 21:19:13 GMT -5
I haven't read anything from the Booker list but have read something from Barack Obama's summer reading list.
So that's something,
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Post by Oweena on Aug 1, 2022 11:02:16 GMT -5
Just a week or so ago I read The Colony, and awhile back I read Small Things Like These.
If my memory is correct I liked both of them.
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Post by Liiisa on Sept 30, 2022 15:42:28 GMT -5
WHY is "Treacle Walker" still not in the database for my library or my favorite bookstore? The longlist was revealed in JULY, people.
Anyway, the shortlist seems to have come out in early September, which I missed somehow:
Glory (just finished reading it)
Treacle Walker (where IS it??!)
The Trees
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Small Things Like These
Oh William!
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Sept 30, 2022 21:03:56 GMT -5
The Seven Moons of Mail Almeida sounds interesting, and maybe Small Things Like These and Glory.
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Post by Liiisa on Sept 30, 2022 21:42:19 GMT -5
"Glory" was amazing, but I do have to warn you that a couple of parts were so graphically violent that I had to set the book aside for a bit.
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Post by tucano on Oct 18, 2022 1:34:50 GMT -5
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Post by Liiisa on Oct 18, 2022 5:19:59 GMT -5
Not yet! I have it on my list but haven't quite gotten there yet.
The one I'm still looking for is "Treacle Walker," but it hasn't been published in the US yet.
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Post by sprite on Oct 18, 2022 11:28:35 GMT -5
So, I completely missed this first time around, because when I saw it I thought, wait, didn't they just announce that?
I'll look for these in the Libby app, but suspect they either won't be there, or will have an 800 week waiting list. which is fine!
I liked the Brontes I've read, but haven't loved them. Cathy and Heathcliff irritated the shit out of me. Thinking back, I now find it odd that all the books I've read have centered the male characters. The women only exist for us to learn about the men.
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Post by Q-pee on Oct 27, 2022 14:01:00 GMT -5
The books ranked
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